Zaha Hadid
Zaha Hadid
Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid, DBEwas an Iraqi-born British architect. She was the first Arab woman who received the Pritzker Architecture Prize, winning it in 2004. She received the Stirling Prize in 2010 and 2011. In 2012, she was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire and in 2015 she became the first woman to be awarded the RIBA Gold Medal in her own right...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionArchitect
Date of Birth31 October 1950
CityBaghdad, Iraq
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If I wanted to do clothes or if I wanted to make a building or design a choreography, you are able to do that - they are all under a similar kind of design umbrella.
I will never give myself the luxury of thinking, 'I've made it.'
What's nice about concrete is that it looks unfinished.
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Like men, women have to be diligent and work hard.
art contains moment mood music
I'm into fashion because it contains the mood of the day, of the moment - like music, literature, and art.
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For many years, I hated nature. As a student, I refused to put a plant anywhere - a living plant, that is. Dead plants were OK.
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Of course, my family helped me, my brothers helped me, but after I set up my own office I had to really help myself. Some people seem to think I had an oil well in my garden! It's a nice idea but not true.
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I think it's good if areas get upgraded and gentrified, as long as the people who always lived there can stay. But they get pushed out to some place.
accessible city open people political
If you think about making a city that is much more porous, many accessible spaces, that is a political position, because you don't fortify, you open it up so that many people can use it.
The funkiest housing in Holland is for low-income, and I think that's very nice.
people power
People in power, they're so used to people kind of playing up to them.
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My buildings are not particularly expensive. It is not a tin shed. If you want a tinny car, you pay for that.
I was always unusual-looking; I wouldn't say beautiful.
connection music obviously people
Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space.